The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-23
CONCERNING WOMEN.

Mrs. N. S. Moore. of Winstead Conn. is translat-
ing Ben Hur" into Swedish.
One woman fraitgrower in California puts forty
tons OF raisins year upon the market.
The recent re election of W. s. Rowland Mayor of
Toronto. is ascribed to the womens votes.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe is preparing. with the
assistance of her son. memoir of her husband, tho
late Professor Stowe.
The whole number of teachers in the public schools
of the States and Territories is 3O7 S04 OF these
10000, or nearly two-thirds,
Mary Clement Leavitt, the w g. T. u ''round-the-
world missionary, recently organized the first union
in China at Picking. with about fifty members
The nineteenth annual meeting of the NationaI
Woman Suffrage Association will be held at Wash
ington d. e.. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
of this week.
Miss Fairweather. NJ. D.. of Chicago mas been put
in charge of the Female Medical School and Hospital
at Agra India to which sixty students have already
been attached.
A correspondent of the Woman's journal suggests
that home for abused wives" would fill long felt
need-a place where women without any available
could find refuge while seeking separation from
cruel husbands.
Chicago has employed police matrons for several
years. and now has two in each of five central sta
TONS one by day the other at night. All arrested
women in Chicago taken to oe these stations,
where women are in constant attendance.
The Illinois Woman's Press Association starts
its second year with seven committees to forward lis
work-On bringing work and workers together, on
editing manuscript ON publications. ON FORMATION,
on philanthrophy, on reporting and on membership.
Mrs. Frances A. Conant is edtor of the journal of
Industrial Education published under the auspices of
the kitchen-garden Association, of Chicago. Mrs.
Conant has for many years been an editorial contrib
utor to Chicago papers, and is practical, helpful
woman.
Rev. R. Heber Newton. in a recent sermon ex-
pressed his emphatic conviction not merely that
is entitled to franchise but that the logical
of American citizenship of Christian Justice
and morality is certain to put the ballot in the hands
of woman.
Mrs: D. A: Beale, of GAINESVILLE Wis, died in San
Francisco, CAL, Now Is. She possessed of unr-
sual manta vigor and long leader in the liter
AIRY circles of GAINESVILLE. During the civil war she
took active part in the work of the sanitary commits
sisn. She greatly interested in all church
| prses, especially missionary work.
The Industrial Art Association. of Chicago has
opened free training classes for teachers prepare
them to teach children of nine ten years old
work 1t is intended that the teachers thus trained
shall do service with various free industrial schools
| sustained by churches and societies.
| The Woman's Press Association of the South was
organized at Greensboro, n c. last month with a
membership of thirtytwo ladies from thirteen States
Mrs Sallie f. Chaplin elected president, and Miss
NJ L. Hatchett secretary and treasurer, with vice
president from each State represented Mrs. f. D.
| Hundley spoke on Woman Temperance Work
| err and Mrs, Elizabeth Cakes Smith read a paper on
Margaret Fuller Miss Hatchett the secretary, pro-
poses edit brief biographical sketches of the women
writer's of the South
The Indiana w. c. T. IT,. are circulating petitions
for presentation to the Legislature praying for the
| following measures: To require instruction in the
public schools regarding the effects of intexcants and
narcotics the human system; to prevent the sale of
obscene literature and pictures to prevent the sale of
tobacco to minors; to restrict the sale of opium
provide physicians to attend the female wards
of the insane hospitals to provide trained nurse to
bring insane women to the hospitals when they cannot
be attended by relative; to provide for the ade
quate punishment of crimes against girls and women
and to raise the "age of consent to eighteen years.